44 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Funicle joints after the first wider than long, the rather indistinctly 

 sutured first club joint shorter than the other joint of that part; 

 joints of funicle widening distad, the flagellum clavate. Punctures 

 of thorax not densely confluent, separated. (Median carina of 

 propodeum not seen distinctly). 



Male. — Not known. 



Described from one female captured from a window, Novem- 

 ber 4, 1912. 



Habitat. — Australia — Proserpine, Queensland. 



Type. — -The above specimen on a tag and a slide bearing the 

 head, a fore and a hind leg. 



The antennae of this genus were originally described as being 

 10-jointed, but a re-examination of the type, shows that its club 

 is 2-jointed, the black portion being the distal or second joint. 



Family AG AON I D^. 

 Genus Agaon Dalmar. 



1. Agaon nigriventre, n. sp. 



Female. — Length 2.20 mm., excluding ovipositor, which is 

 exserted for a length about equal to that of the abdomen. 



Orange yellow, the posterior margin of the head, flagellum, 

 all of the abdomen except at base, an hour-glass shaped marking 

 down meson of pronotum and cephalic part of scutum (a smaller 

 end cephalad; shaped like an inverted egg-cup), a stripe across apex 

 of thorax (about apex of scutellum), the tegulae and a dot in a line 

 longitudinally with them, cephalad (opposite the apex of the egg- 

 cup-shaped marking) jet black; also the valves of the ovipositor^ 

 Agreeing with all the characters of the genus as given by Ashmead, 

 but the mandibles bidentate at apex (but four teeth or even five 

 in all), the antennae 9-jointed without a ring-joint, the scape hemi- 

 spherically dilated (foliaciously). First and second funicle joints 

 subequal, longer, longer than the pedicel, which is subequal to the 

 distal funicle joint. Postmarginal vein longer than either mar- 

 ginal and stigmal, the latter shortest. Wings hyaline. Body 

 glabrous. 



Male. — Unknown. 



Described from one female received from the South Australian. 

 Museum, Adelaide, mounted on a card labelled "A. M. Lea." 



